What expressions (or words) drive you nuts?? - Part 2

Pirate Deer?

Funny, Maria.

Its kitty-corner in CT. I alwaysassociated catty-corner with NY & NJ. I guess it goes beyond that.
I'll pass on the size issue.

I've only used kitty-corner. But then I'm from CT and MA. I don't think it's used much here, I get weird looks(mostly from the kids) when I use it.

carrie, ALL the infommercial people say "BUT WAIT". Yes, I was aware Billy Mays died. He used to irritate the life out of me but it seems so wrong to say so much as one derogatory syllable against a departed one.

you don't want your free ginsu knives? Oxi-clean is actually very useful, in moderation.

I did buy oxyclean at bed bath and beyond and was disappointed in the product so back to good ole clorox.

I like Oxi-Clean a lot.

How about, 'Past performance is no guarantee of future results'? Bad enough when you hear that from your mutual fund, but from your surgeon!! Ugh. Worse yet, when you have to issue that disclaimer before, uh, umm - you know.

Yankee's win is a phrase i dislike very much - a close second is Giants win - or the Eagles won - i could continue with a few others as well:)

I hear kitty-corner a lot here in California. Catty-corner? I always thought that was when the lady living diagnolly across the street liked to talk about all the other ladies on the street behind their backs!

I never tire of hearing, 'A little roller up along first, BEHIND THE BAG! It gets through Buckner...'

BLIGHT - I say no more.

The most annoying things I encounter a lot is eating at a restaurant when some one is using the cell phone arguing and swearing, also when I am at the market trying to concentrate to look for an item and some one is chatting right next to me or waiting in line an be privy to a conversation

Victor, am cheering for any team from any where if they beat the Yankees

I was in line at a Starbucks once and my son called me, I did answer it but said I'll call you back in 2 and hung up. The guy behind the counter actually thanked me for that. Must be a lot of people just keep talking.

We always said kitty-corner (I grew up in California, too.) I remember being informed by a gentleman I knew that the phrase was from the French word "quatre"--four-- + corner. I considered him very fussy and pedantic, and now I'm getting just like him!

My Post Office has a sign up at each counter station - they refuse to help people who are on their cell phone. I love it! It is rude to start with but since they are talking on the phone they can't tell the clerk what they need so it delays everyone.

Here's another annoying phrase that comes from the baseball world: "It's an A-bomb -- from A-Rod."
Which reminds me, I'm annoyed by the tendency to make nicknames out of first initials and the first three letters of the last name. It's no longer clever (usually anyway).

When I was younger I doubt there were as many rude people as there is today

I'm not a fan of cell phone use. I'd love one of those devices that silences them.

My husband refuses to own a cell phone. I rarely use mine, but like to have it with me. I got phones for my son and I when he first started driving, and broke down one night and couldn't reach me for a few hours.

I think I read once that in New York you can only use one when driving if both hands are on the wheel

I do have one but never use it except for emergencies

We use our cell phone for emergency or if we are going to be late; often forgetting to take it with us. No one can call us on it as no one has the number.

Yes we have a hands free law here, but I guess it only is good for talking, not texting. There was an accident a while back where 5 young girls were killed and they think the driver was texting.

I guess there will be no holding your own here!

Hee hee. Yes, texting is even worse.

golly gee, I'm running out of things that annoy me. But here's one: http://bestuff.com/stuff/ben--jerrys-phish-food
For ice cream, pls stick w/ names such as vanilla and rocky road. I just can't enjoy ice cream w/ the name "phish" in it. It ain't right.

Another one. Today we get a call asking if we knew Mr. Smith across the street (not caddy corner) across the street. DH says "yes". We were asked to go to the neighbor's & stick a note on his door, advising him that to call the ABC company.

I suspected it might be a collection agency. Since I'm good friends w/this neighbor, I immediately called them and related the story. She confirmed she was having financial troubles and warned me there could be more calls. But do you see what is happening here? They're calling us about our neighbor's problem. If you are good friends with the neighbors, you call them like I did, or you say nothing, to avoid embarrassing them. If you are not good friends, then one could possibly tell the WHOLE neighbood about the call. She told me this was called criss-crossing. Can you believe it?????

I immediately went online to see if this practice was illegal. It is not illegal. Actually, there isn't a law AGAINST calling your neighbors, and in legalese, no law against it = legal. Can you believe it??? It would have been illegal if they had told me the details of my neighbor's troubles, but they didn't. All they said was for me to go post a note.

'New and improved' is both overused and often annoying.

Bill, You've spent much of your life annoyed if "the Yankees win!" bothers you. I've only been annoyed twice. ;^)

Maria, I agree that less people have learned how to behave politely. I am amazed at how many people don't know when to hold a door open for others. Sometimes I feel like I'll be stuck holding the door for hours. On the other hand,there is much less open racism & sexism then when I was a kid, so I wouldn't want to go back. Can we get both?

I don't hold the door for white men.

Very funny Victor, but I don't believe you!

Dave, I want both, I always can tell when some young people were taught to be polite by their parents, they hold the door for me

Hee hee. Just kidding, of course. It really irritates me when I hold the door for someone and they don't say thank you.

Victor, I was just going to say that!!!
and if they don't say thank you, I always say a very loud "you're welcome!"

When that happens, I say very sweetly and loudly enough for them to hear "You're welcome!"

Most people are in such a world of their own they don't even register that you've just been polite and held the door for them. Most people apologize and then say thank you.

I guess I'm being just as rude as they are, but then again if it makes them think the next time, it was worth it.

Oops, Jen! We cross-posted. Great minds think alike!

So do I!

Now we're getting into just common courtesy....I was going to pick my son up from school one day, kids are coming out the door and I'm waiting(with my sleeping 2 yr old in my arms) for a break in the line to sneak in when a guy just cuts right in front of me to go thru the door first. Hello? what am I invisible???

I'm always confused as to how long I should hold the door. If someone is coming, but they are not really close should I wait for them? Usually when they see me waiting, they'll speed up, but be annoyed that I made them hurry. But if I don't wait, the door will invariably shut right as they get there and then they'll think I'm rude for not waiting and holding the door. It seems like a timing thing. And then sometimes someone is holding the door for me, and I'm in my own world, and don't notice till I get to the door and the person is looking at me like "Why didn't you hurry up, I'm not really the doorman" and then I feel rude.

So I usually don't hold doors for people.

True story about holding an elevator door. This happened in 1990.

I was going on a job interview. I walk into the building and the elevator is just left of the entrance. As I get on the elevator and press my floor I see someone coming in the entrance door. I am not going to wait so I don't try to keep the elevator doors open and hope they shut before he gets there. But he hollers "Hold the door!"

Now I have no choice, so I hold the door by pressing that button that opens the door and he gets on and we smile at each other (mine is more like a smirk) and he is going to the same floor I am.

I am holding my military uniform on a hanger that I changed out of for the interview (I was always looking for another job back then) and he tells me he served in the same branch, the years he served, and his rate or job and it is the same job as mine.

He tells me how back then, you had to be an artist to perform our job whereas now, it is all digital and anybody that can press a button can do it. I agree wholeheartedly and tell him I was trained by some of those old timers and I miss the way things were done and how the true art of the craft will soon be lost. I tell him I am there to apply for a job with a company that uses these new digital machines for which I am also trained and that, sadly, if I want to eat, I must embrace progress. He says yes, that is the way of the world.

We get off the elevator and he wishes me luck and turns left and disappears behind some frosted glass doors. I step up to the receptionist and she hands me an application clip board and I sit down to fill it out. Shortly thereafter, her phone rings. I step up to her desk to give her the completed app and she doesn't even look at it before she says "When can you start?" She gives me brochures and paperwork and starts going into the benefits and I am dumbfounded. "Wow!" I say. "I thought I had to be interviewed" . She says,' "You were. That man that got off the elevator with you owns the company. He just called and said you were hired."

True story. I guess there is some merit in holding doors.

That is an awesome story jadajoy.

What a fascinating story Jada, thanks for telling it. While holding any door open for some stranger unexpected results may happen as it did in your case.

very cool story!!

That is a very cool story! My son had an experience a little similar to that. While waiting to interview at Lowes, he was chatting with someone while waiting. Then after a little bit, went in for the interview, and it was with the same person he had been talking to.